Golang Weekly

A plan to bring generic collections to Go 1.28

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#612 — July 31, 2026

Go Weekly

Go's Proposals for Generic Collection Types in Go 1.28 — An umbrella proposal from Go's Collections working group covering several collection data structures intended for the eventual Go 1.28 standard library. Includes a canonical set.Set type, hash-based maps and sets with custom hashers, an ordered map, and a new generic binary heap.

Alan Donovan (Go Team)

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Watching Go's New Garbage Collector Move Through the Heap — Green Tea became the default GC in Go 1.26, and Phil goes looking with perf and an ASCII map of the heap. Go lays objects out in size-segregated spans and never moves them, which can mean freeing 90% of your objects frees almost no memory.

Phil Eaton

IN BRIEF:

All being well, Go 1.27 is expected to land in the next couple of weeks, but the draft Go 1.27 release notes have been fleshed out some more if you want to get ahead of it.
go vet is now set to flag formatting pointers with %d in printf.
Eitam Ring teases KinetiGo, a TinyGo-based toolchain for working with LEGO robotics devices.
Stacked pull requests are now in public preview on GitHub.

Supervised Fire-and-Forget Tasks in Go — How to run 'fire and forget' tasks with bounded concurrency, panic recovery, and graceful shutdown, instead of bare go func() calls.

Redowan Delowar

Adding Go to a Browser Code Runner — A look at adding Go to a browser code runner, why the usual GOOS=js approach didn't work in a V8 isolate, and how compiling the Yaegi interpreter to WASI got it working cleanly.

Ata Kuyumcu

pgx.CollectRows or Why Nice APIs Don't Have To Be Slow — pgx's CollectRows and RowToStructByName helpers were much slower than handwritten loops. The author got caching fixes into pgx 5.6 (released in 2024) and shows how a rethought abstraction closes the gap almost entirely.

zolstein

A Second Database Is a Dependency You Can Skip — TimescaleDB extends Postgres for analytics at scale, no new service to run. Get $1000 credit to start.

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📄 Wrapping Errors with Defer – A small pattern combining defer with a named error result to avoid repetition while still adding context to errors. Roxy Light

📄 Go's Maps: How Swiss Tables Replaced the Old Bucket Design Gabor Koos

🛠 Code & Tools

Gore 0.7: A Full-Featured Go REPL Environment — Has all the niceties you'd expect like line editing, history, multi-line input, expression evaluation, the ability to import packages (and, in v0.7, you can create import aliases too) and gopls-powered code completion.

motemen

Goph 2.0: A Native Go SSH Client Library — Supports connections using passwords, private keys, keys with passphrases, doing file transfers, etc. v2 brings a functional options API, context-aware commands, SOCKS5 proxy, jump hosts, and more.

Mohamed El Bahja

🖼️ webp-go-pure: Pure Go WebP Encoding and Decoding — A pure Go WebP encoder/decoder for when you want to avoid cgo and libwebp.

Kaan Barmore-Genc

soup 2.0: A Beautiful Soup-Inspired Web Scraper — Takes inspiration from Python's popular Beautiful Soup and provides functions for loading and parsing pages and then navigating or reading the elements on them.

Anas Khan

Wish 2.0.2 – Charm's SSH server framework for building terminal-accessible apps. v2.0.2 fixes a bug with apps running under bubbletea.Middleware.
jsonparser 1.6 – Fast JSON parser offering path-based access without predefined structs and minimal allocations.
Milvus 3.0 – Go-powered cloud-native vector database built for vector ANN search. (Repo.)
req 3.60 – Simple, powerful HTTP client library with advanced features.

Go can't kill a stuck goroutine

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#611 — July 24, 2026

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GoMLX: Accelerated Machine Learning Framework for Go — A Python-free, idiomatically Go alternative to TensorFlow or PyTorch. It's come a long way since we linked to it last, with more SIMD support, a new homepage, thorough docs, and support for more Hugging Face models out of the box.

Jan Pfeifer and Contributors

💡 The new docs include a guide to training your own Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with it to classify the MNIST digits.

Build Production-Ready CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub Actions — Erik Reinert takes you from your first workflow to production pipelines: matrix builds, caching, composite actions, reusable workflows, and secure cloud deploys with OIDC.

Master.dev sponsor

Storing Passkeys Like Password Hashes, and a Go API to Match — A proposal for storing WebAuthn credentials as opaque strings, a la password hashes, plus a draft stateless crypto/passkey API that could reach the standard library in Go 1.28. Filippo wants feedback on both now.

Filippo Valsorda

Go's Stuck Goroutine Problem (And Why to Let It Fail) — How goroutines get stuck, why Go can't kill them, and River v0.40's Erlang-inspired 'let it crash' answer for background jobs that ignore cancellation.

Brandur Leach

Escape Analysis in Go: Stack vs. Heap Allocations Explained — An approachable intro to Go's escape analysis and reading -gcflags="-m" output that doubles as a demo of GoLand 2026.2's new tooling for it.

Dominika Stankiewicz (JetBrains)

Building a Metrics Backend? Keep It in Postgres — TimescaleDB extends Postgres to ingest and query metrics at scale. One database, not two. Get $1000 credit to start.

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📄 Building a pkg.go.dev TUI Explorer – A written alternative to ▶️ Alex's video on the same build. Alex Pliutau

📄 Memory Profiling and Optimization in Go: How One Line Allocated 687GB – An accidentally quadratic slice prepend that was caught by the allocation profiler. Solomon Oladiran

📄 Everyone Should Know SIMD – More relevant now as Go continues to add support. Mitchell Hashimoto

🛠 Code & Tools

httpretty 0.2: Pretty-Print HTTP Requests Made from Go — Inspired by curl's --verbose, this could be handy when debugging. We first linked this 7 years ago(!) and it's been rounded out with support for multipart bodies, HTTP trailers, and http.Flusher/http.ResponseController.

Henrique Vicente

oapi-codegen 2.8.0: Now with OpenAPI 3.1 Support — A long-standing way to generate idiomatic Go client and server boilerplate code from OpenAPI 3 specifications, and now OpenAPI 3.1 too. Specs are now validated prior to generation too, Fiber v3 is supported, and Go 1.25+ is now required.

Jamie Tanna and Contributors

go-diskfs: Manipulate Disks and Disk Images from Go — For tasks that you might otherwise use fdisk, mkfs.vfat, or mtools for – partitioning, making filesystems, etc.

Avi Deitcher

🤖 Crush 0.86.0 – Charm's Go-powered CLI agentic development tool adds new LSP tools for better refactoring.
iso8601 1.8 – Fast ISO8601 date parsing library. v1.8 adds support for ordinal dates (e.g. 2026-205 which is today).
Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Go 2.1 – Google's toolkit for building agents.
do 2.1 – Dependency injection toolkit built on generics.
go-ora 3.0 – Pure Go Oracle Database client library.
Ergo 2.19 – Modern Go-powered IRCv3 daemon.
go-pinecone 6.0 – Official Go SDK for Pinecone.

📰 Classifieds

Scala on Go: sealed types, exhaustive matching, Option/Try & new bind/also do-notation — compiled to plain Go. Try it: gala.fyi.

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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

Shirei is a cross-platform Go immediate-mode GUI framework that now has early support for generating iOS and Android apps from the same codebase.
Anton Zhiyanov's Solod, an attempt to create a 'better C' based on a subset of Go, now supports networking in v0.2.
🤖 In How I Stopped Running Out of Tokens, a developer whose company uses Claude Enterprise shares some tools you can use (like rtk) to get the most out of your assigned limits.
Metago is an experimental template-based metaprogramming approach to writing templates that write Go.
OctoGo is a Go-like language for the Parallax Propeller 2 microcontroller with the unusual property that goroutines are not scheduled, they take over a CPU core each.
/r/golang discussed why is Cgo so bad? (Or not!)

Compile-time OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Go

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#610 — July 17, 2026

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How I Use HTMX to Build Go Webapps — A practical walkthrough of using htmx (think AJAX-style updates driven by HTML attributes) with Go. Opinionated, super Go-specific, and honest about the tricky bits. A good starter on building server-rendered interfaces with incremental interactivity.

Alex Edwards

One Postgres for Your App and Your Metrics — TimescaleDB extends the Postgres you already run so high-volume metrics and events stay queryable at scale. Hypertables, up to 95% compression, continuous aggregates. One database to operate, not two. Get $1000 credit to start.

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Compile-Time OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for Go — No more hand-written instrumentation or eBPF agents needed, as OpenTelemetry's compile-time instrumentation for Go is now stable. It uses -toolexec to inject telemetry automatically, but v1's library coverage has some limits worth noting.

Kemal Akkoyun (OpenTelemetry)

IN BRIEF:

14 years ago Rob Pike proposed removing string(int) – there's an update! It's a likely decline but comments are open. The more recent conditional expression proposal is also looking likely to suffer a similar fate.
go fmt and go doc are set to no longer rewrite straight quotes into 'smart' quotes inside comments.
🕹️ Luigi Vanacore has released Beginning Game Programming with Go, a (paid) book about building a complete game using Ebitengine. The code is open source, though, and on GitHub.
Reddit's /r/golang discussed the situation where passing structs by value is faster than passing pointers.
url.MustParse has been accepted.

My Thoughts on the Future of Go in the AI Era — Akin to Steve Francia's recent piece, Alex argues that "AI might actually make boring languages more valuable, not less."

Alex Pliutau

📄 Eliminating Go Bounds Checks with unsafe – For optimization purposes. Andrii Berezhynskyi

📄 Implementing Go-Flavored Concurrency in C – Being done as part of Anton's work on his Solod compilable-to-C Go subset. Anton Zhiyanov

📄 How a Malicious Go Module Exposed a Network of GitHub Malware Lures Kirill Boychenko (Socket)

📄 6 Security Settings Every GitHub Maintainer Should Enable This Week Joseph Katsioloudes (GitHub)

🛠 Code & Tools

Fyne 2.8: A Big Update for the Popular GUI Toolkit — The cross-platform GUI toolkit lands its biggest release in years, adding GPU-accelerated shapes, shadows and custom GLSL shaders, richer Markdown rendering, multi-monitor window APIs, and more.

Fyne Team

AI Wrote the Diff. Who Reviews It? — Open-source multi-agent PR review, drops into GitHub Actions.

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GoLand 2026.2 Released — The latest release of the commercial Go IDE now integrates with the go fix tool and introduces a new 'Go optimization' tool that brings profiling, escape analysis, and struct optimization into one place.

Artem Pronichev (JetBrains)

🤖 Microsoft Agent Framework for Go in Public Preview — Microsoft follows in Google ADK Go's footsteps with its own framework for building, orchestrating and deploying AI agents and workflows. GitHub repo.

Quim Muntal (Microsoft)

💡 The New Stack shares some more background on the project, pointing a finger at Anthropic and OpenAI for not yet supporting Go directly with their similar SDKs.

💬 Chatto: A Go-Powered Group/Team Chat App — A complete, self-hostable Slack-like (except fast and doesn't nag about AI features constantly) group chat with a Go backend and SvelteKit frontend. GitHub repo.

Hendrik Mans

🎨 Sketchy: A Framework for Creating Generative Art in Go — This is pretty slick. Powered by Ebitengine and canvas behind the scenes.

Vernon Miller

🔒 Tinyauth 5.1 – Tiny authorization and authentication server. v5.1 marks it becoming officially OpenID Connect™ Certified and adds support for auth through Tailscale and deny-by-default access controls.
Echo 5.3 – The popular web framework adds support for the new HTTP QUERY method and adds a mechanism to automatically handle HEAD requests on GET endpoints.
THUNDERSNAP – A new library from Tailscale for replicating, forking, and sharing container snapshots. More here.
Tetra3D 0.18 – PS1/N64-inspired Ebitengine-based hybrid 3D renderer.
Gofeed 1.4 – A robust library for parsing RSS, Atom and JSON feeds.

📰 Classifieds

Sum types, exhaustive pattern matching, Option — the type system Go lacks, compiled to plain Go. Every Go module works. gala.fyi.

📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

✨ This week, I stumbled upon this table of the top 100 starred Go repos on GitHub. How far can you go before you find something new to you?
Last month, Bruce Ediger created a TFTP honeypot in Go (TFTP is a file transfer protocol often used by embedded devices and network hardware). Here's the results of what turned up on it.
If you woke up to AWS billing alerts forecasting you'll owe them billions of dollars at the end of the month, you're not alone.
GitHub's Dependabot is now giving packages a three-day default cooldown before opening version update PRs, though security fixes are exempt.
Did you know SQLite supports STRICT tables that actually attempt to enforce data is of the correct type?

How Go makes TypeScript's compiler 10x faster

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#609 — July 10, 2026

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From TypeScript 7's Go Rewrite to Go as an Agentic Language — The 10x faster, Go-powered TypeScript 7.0 compiler was released this week, and former Go product lead Steve Francia leans on Microsoft's success with the port to argue that Go is the natural default for agentic development.

Steve Francia

📺 If you're more interested in the technicalities of the TypeScript porting project itself, Microsoft's Jake Bailey went deep in ▶️ this talk at GopherCon 2025.

Build a Real-Time Pipeline, Live with Our Engineers — You'll build it end-to-end: stream from an MQTT broker into Tiger Cloud, model it in hypertables, roll it up with continuous aggregates, and visualize it in Grafana. Free, July 22 at 12 PM ET. Can't make it? Register for the recording.

Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

Proposal: go run -c 'code here' — Some languages (like Python or Ruby) let you run once-off arbitrary bits of code as a one-liner from the terminal. Could Go do the same? Ian Lance Taylor, Rob Pike, and others weighed in on the idea in this golang-nuts thread.

Dan Kegel et al.

IN BRIEF:

Go 1.27 Release Candidate 2 has been released.
Go 1.26.5 and 1.25.12 have been released including two security fixes.
The Go vulnerability database now marks golang.org/x/crypto/openpgp as unsafe, so govulncheck will start throwing warnings if you're using it.
gopls 0.23.0 is the latest release of Go's official language server with fleshed out Go 1.27 support and an sqlrowserr analyzer that catches missing sql.Rows.Err() checks.

PROPOSAL UPDATES:

maps.Same (formerly Identical) is coming to the standard library as a way to identify if two maps share the same underlying storage.
x/net/http2's standalone Transport and Server types are now going to be deprecated (proposal accepted two days ago).
sync/atomic may be gaining Max and Min operations (becoming a 'likely accept' two days ago).

mmap vs pread in a Real Go Storage Engine — A surprisingly thorough tour of how the VictoriaMetrics filesystem layer reads bytes: mmap when mincore says pages are resident, pread when a major page fault might block a Go thread.

Phuong Le

Go Interfaces, Reflection, And Binary Size — As we learnt in Jesús Espino's deep dive into reflect, reflection keeps extra type metadata around, but it also stops the linker stripping unused methods.

Chris Siebenmann

Architecting Durable Runtimes for AI Agents — How to build a 5-layer production stack for durable agents.

Orkes sponsor

📄 Line-Rate Packet Processing in Go with AF_XDP Andree Toonk

📄 Fixing a kubelet Memory Leak in Kubernetes 1.36 – The tracking down of a tiny Go lifecycle bug in Kubernetes kubelet. Mike Robbins

📄 Request Coalescing with x/sync/singleflight Redowan Delowar

📄 Benchmarking Go 1.27's encoding/json: The any Trap Reqfleet

🛠 Code & Tools

Goshot: Go Library and CLI to Turn Code into Screenshots — Turn the code of your choice into screenshots you can share or put in your READMEs. The styling and colors are highly customizable, you get syntax highlighting, and a choice of window chrome styles.

Chris Watson

💡 The Charm team offers a similar tool called Freeze.

✉️ go-mail 0.8: Comprehensive Email Sending Library — A feature-rich library for composing and sending mail with a strong focus on security and correctness, covering SSL/TLS, SMTP AUTH, address validation, and more. v0.8 adds native NTLMv2 SMTP authentication and DKIM support.

Winni Neessen

pREST 2.0: Serve a RESTful API From a Postgres Database — Turn a Postgres database into a RESTful API. Covers similar ground to PostgREST but built in Go rather than Haskell. v2.0 adds support for multiple databases.

pREST Team

radsort 1.0: A Stable LSD Radix Sort Implementation — From the prolific author of compress and cpuid comes a Go implementation of Radsort, a stable LSD radix sort with O(√n) space overhead.

Klaus Post

httpSMS: Turn an Android Phone into an SMS Gateway — A developer from Cameroon struggled to find an automated way to send and receive SMS messages API-style, so built this.

Ndole Studio

River 0.40 – A Postgres-based job processing system for Go. Contains a schema cleanup migration and adds JobStuckHandler as a hook for handling stuck jobs.
Excelize 2.11.0 – The library for reading and writing Excel spreadsheets celebrates its tenth anniversary with this release.
GoReleaser 2.17 – Can now build Windows .msix packages.
GoWebDAV 0.13 – Pure Go WebDAV client library.

📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

🤖 The creator of htmx, a commonly used set of frontend tools (particularly in the Go world), shows off a practical example of using Claude to investigate a bug report and reflects on how AI fits in with being an 'older developer'.
The Ruby community has created a great guide on how to start a Ruby meetup but the advice is general enough for it to be valuable to gophers too!
Devographics, best known for their State of JavaScript surveys, are back with a more general State of Devs survey to take.
🤖 The creator of the Bun JavaScript runtime, recently acquired by Anthropic, wrote up the story of rewriting Bun in Rust, a controversial AI-powered porting effort. It took ~$165k of Fable usage (at API rates).
A directory of how Postgres can replace other systems, whether that's cron, Kafka, Redis, Pinecone, MongoDB, or many others.
It's old, but this guide to what every number shown in htop means is genuinely educational and fascinating in equal measure.